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Dr. Howard W. Jones Jr., a Johns Hopkins physician who pioneered research into in vitro fertilization and oversaw the birth of the first "test tube" baby, died of respiratory failure Friday at Sentara Heart Hospital in Virginia, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. He was 104.

Dr. Jones also was the first physician at Johns Hopkins to examine Henrietta Lacks, an African-American patient whose cervical cancer tumor cells have been used in groundbreaking medical discoveries since the 1950s, according to the medical system.

"Johns Hopkins has lost one of our true giants — as has the entire world of medicine and gynecology in particular," Paul B. Rothman,...

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